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and

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facility located at 5746

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on the southeastern corner of Sunset and Van Ness Avenue in the

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. For decades, it was recognizable by the white, ladder-like snake on the building's roof. This work of art was called "Starsteps" and was dismantled when ownership of the building changed hands in 2000. It was one of the Los Angeles landmarks that had previous landmark status in the late 20th century.

Landmark status

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, another last Los Angeles landmark demolished to make way for the

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in 2016. The lattice steel, truss-like sculpture on top of the building, "Starsteps" was what made Metromedia Square a Los Angeles landmark in the 1980s and 1990s.

History

Origins

The site was first known as the Nassour Studios, built in 1946 and opened January 1, 1947 by brothers William and

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(1911–1962). Over 100 independent films were shot there under the Nassour Studio banner. Originally, there were four sound stages ranging in size from around to just over . Nassour's modern

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-styled projection room and modern offices were located in the buildings fronting Sunset Boulevard. Dressing rooms were constructed adjacent to stages 1 and 2. An old converted two story apartment building located down the street on Van Ness housed producers and writers. The big stage (4) had removable panels that hid a water tank. It was used to film the jungle river scenes in ''

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'' (1949). The lot was very small (about four acres) so an underground facility for storage was necessary. A large freight elevator was installed for access.

A major television facility

In 1950, the Nassour brothers sold their studio to the

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, publisher of the ''

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''. Times-Mirror was looking for a facility to permanently house

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(channel 11), its new television station (at the time, owned jointly with

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) which commenced broadcasting the previous year. The facility was later renamed KTTV Studios. The

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-based firm

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purchased the property along with KTTV in 1963. In 1967 Metromedia undertook an extensive renovation and expansion of the facility, which included a new office tower and building housing various Metromedia enterprises, including the

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, the

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, the Foster & Kleiser advertising firm and

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, the latter of which was purchased by the company in 1964. The renovation also brought about a name change, from KTTV Studios to Metromedia Square. Los Angeles radio stations

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and KMET (now

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), which Metromedia purchased in separate 1963 and 1965 transactions, moved there in 1976. The truss-like, lattice steel work of art sculpture, "Starsteps" was added to the building's roof on the north side of the property above the 101 freeway in 1981. Television producer

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moved into the property in 1973 and headquartered his company,

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, in the building. Lear started videotaping his television series here in the fall of 1975, including but not limited to: ''

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''; ''

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''; ''

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''; '' Maude''; ''

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''; ''

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''; '' One Day at a Time''; and '' The Facts of Life''. One of his other shows, ''

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'', remained taped at NBC Studios in Burbank; its 1980 revival, ''Sanford'', was videotaped at Metromedia. Shows such as ''Diff'rent Strokes'', ''The Facts of Life'', ''One Day at a Time'', and ''The Jeffersons'' later relocated to

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by 1982.

Later incarnation

In 1986, Metromedia sold most of its television interests to

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, and KTTV became a cornerstone station of the new

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. As a result, the studios became the Fox Television Center, though Metromedia continued to own the building and the land on which it was situated, leasing the property to Fox and KTTV. The Fox Broadcasting Company launch announcement was made from the property, and on October 9, 1986, the flagship show was broadcast live, ''

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''. Shows like the Metromedia and then Fox-produced ''

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'' as well as the sketch comedy series ''

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'', and the first season of ''

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'' were among the last series to be taped at this complex. Ironically, very few Fox television shows were actually taped at the Fox Television Center. The direct-to-syndication seasons (1986-1990) of ''

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'' were also filmed here. KTTV and the Fox network operations moved to their own new building (the present-day Fox Television Center) in

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in 1996, which is the corporate home of the

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group. Meanwhile, the radio stations' studios remained there, even long after they were no longer owned by Metromedia. KTWV, now owned by

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, moved to new studios in

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in 1997, and then

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neighborhood on L.A.'s

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on February 18, 2013. KLAC eventually became acquired by

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(now iHeartMedia) and moved to studios shared with Clear Channel's other AM and FM stations, which are now located in Burbank. The Fox Broadcasting Company, which had maintained some business offices at the

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studios in Los Angeles'

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neighborhood while at the Television Center, moved its complete base of operations to the Century City studio lot shortly after the KTTV move. This new facility, known as the Fox Network Center, is the home to the network's live studio productions, such as ''

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''. Metromedia sold the land to the

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in 2000. The building was demolished by the school district in 2003 and replaced with

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, which opened in 2008.

List of shows recorded at Metromedia Square

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'' (current syndication version; first season, 1984–1985) *''

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'' (1969-1970) *''The Last Word with

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'' (syndicated version for its entire run, 1966–1978) *''

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Notes

External links

News on the center's demolition, by VarietyArticle on Metromedia Square at seeing-stars.com

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